All news on the topic: poverty

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is currently escalating his bid to scrap the Equality Act – which prohibits discrimination against anyone – by blaming ethnic minorities for the poor educational performance of white working class boys.

Angela Rayner seems in the running for the Labour leadership race after saying she been cleared by HMRC of wrongdoing over her tax affairs. We take a closer look at the woman behind the politics.

As Health Minister Wes Streeting announces his resignation today, it’s believed he stands poised to fight for the top spot as the Labour Party navigates a civil war.

The conflict in Iran is expected to drive 200,000 more households into poverty, top economists have cautioned.

Wales was once the powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution. By the 1820s, it was responsible for 40 per cent of Britain’s iron exports.

Altagrace, a mother living in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, remembers the moment that her life changed forever.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the cap would be lifted when she delivered the budget back in November.

Shuffling along a scruffy pavement lined by dilapidated buildings, a lone dealer emerges from a drug den where addicts shoot up after cooking heroin flogged by kids in £10 bags.

The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their medication.

Led by King’s College London, study will recruit 360 people in England and Wales to explore benefits of scheme

The group of women ended their five-day hunger strike today but have vowed to step up the campaign against deepening food insecurity

As many as one in three women were on Universal Credit in some parts of the country, the latest DWP figures show - a million more than men - wth charity Gingerbread saying many single parents were being frozen out of higher paid jobs

The International Consortium of British Pensioners (ICBP) has published a new report which shares the warning for pensioners looking to move abroad and slams the Government’s defence of it's “immoral” policy

90 MPs and peers have written to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to urge him to extend the Household Support Fund in next week's Budget as it is due to come to an end next month

A 67-year-old pensioner told The Mirror how he was “scared” about the future and had been forced to take a job as a taxi driver after he was surviving on just £6 a month

The millionaire made the callous recommendation despite the fact that cereal prices have risen by 28% over the last four years with millions of Americans living in poverty

On tonight's episode of BBC Question Time, as politicians of all colours bickered and pointed the finger at one another, one student told a heartbreaking story about poverty at her university

Jaywick, in Essex, is often referred to as the "poorest place in the UK" and has been plagued by issues including dog poo, litter and poor drainage - but the community is fighting back

Researcher David Clarke has given away £100,000 in inheritance money by picking twelve strangers at random and letting them how decide how the cash should be spent.

It comes as almost three million emergency food parcels were distributed last year by anti-poverty charity, The Trussell Trust

The use of foodbanks has rocketed and more and more families are becoming homeless, statistics suggest, and campaigners have demanded for change to finally happen

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said a sustained fall in poverty has not been seen in two decades

Martin Lewis led calls for urgent action on dire poverty levels gripping the UK, which have barely changed in two decades, after a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

A new interactive map has shown Brits are, on average, £10,000 worse off today than a decade ago, with several locations showing child poverty and worse incomes